We often talk about social media and community engagement, but don’t always separate the two. It is important to understand the distinction between social media and community as well as how they complement one another within a social strategy. Social media tools and technology can help to cultivate a community or provide online locations where… Continue reading →

I’m really looking forward to attending and participating in the The Social Communications Summit – SocComm – this comingTuesday, Feb 10th. Its produced by Jeff Pulver and will be exploring the state of “Social Communications” today and where things are headed in the future. See the new updated Agenda with a fantastic line of speakers… Continue reading →

This is an interesting case study from MarketingSherpa: How to Use Twitter to Push Your Products: Lessons from Woot Woot.com is an online store and community that sells “cool stuff” for cheap. It has ‘one-day- one-deal’ product offer: They sell one new item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time… Continue reading →

It’s almost every executive’s instinct to close the door and hide when times are tough at work – but not communicating with employees can actually make things worse. I received an email today from TalentTrust that had some great advice for CEOs and senior executives on communicating within the company during the economic crisis. Every… Continue reading →

We had a company outing to Mohonk Mountain last month. It was a morning of learning and an afternoon of great cookies, tea and some hiking. We taunted the fish and then hiked up the Skytop Trail. It was worth the sweat. We topped off the evening with the beer samplers at the Gilded Otter… Continue reading →

I am giving this presentation today at PRSA’s International Conference in Detroit. The presentation covers a plethora of tech tools and services that can help make PR folk more effective, productive and efficient. View here: PR on Steroids, by Sandra Fathi, PDF Version View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: prsa technology)

A couple of weekends ago, I had a conversation with someone about how the phrase “viral marketing campaign” is meaningless. Why? Because when marketers release great content into the wild, the campaign is over. You can make your content very easy to share and distribute — to spread virally — but, in my view, you… Continue reading →

Here are the articles we discussed as a team at our staff meeting this week. Enjoy! New YouTube Tool Helps Increase of Videos, Advertising Age, September 8, 2008 9 Client Satisfaction Tips, HOW Design, January 22, 2008 How to Work with an Illustrator, HOW Design, January 23, 3008 The NFL Stakes its Future on IT,… Continue reading →

Following Leslies’ great blog below on jetBlue, Dell, like jetBlue, are also being smart with their customers and mending their “bad” ways with a simple and clever idea: Dell’s IdeaStorm, Where Your Ideas Reign. Dell’s simple request: Post your ideas and tell us what products and services you like, what you don’t like. There are… Continue reading →

Why Is Affect Strategies Doing Book Reviews? The Affect Strategies team has read and reviewed several books as a result of our continued dedication to staying abreast of the changing PR landscape. As practitioners in an industry that is constantly evolving and morphing into different mediums, our team prides itself on staying ahead of the… Continue reading →